Photo-Realistic Drawings by Kelvin Okafor
Tinie Tempah by Kelvin Okafor
You'd be forgiven if you thought that these are photographs. In fact, they are "photo-realism" art, drawn with charcoal and graphite pencil by London-based artist Kelvin Okafor. It took him about a hundred hour to do each drawing. Color us impressed!
Zoe Saldana
Princess Diana
King Hussein of Jordan
Mother Theresa
As you see above, Kelvin has drawn celebrities and famous people, but his work that struck me the most are those of ordinary folks. Take this drawing of Aisha II, which Kelvin has posted on YouTube:
A model named Mana (as blogged by Kelvin):
Or of his friend's dog named Storm:
